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New Belgian stamp issue.

In the last couple of years, things have calmed down a bit, but when the Netherlands saw the long-term Queen Beatrix stamps, the Struycken type, for the first time, there was a lot of criticism. It was said of the portray, which was then designed in black spots, that it seemingly had to depict the Queen of Suriname.
How will Belgians react when they will face the first new King Albert stamps next year? That portray too has been roughly rastered, a graphic technique on which, according to some of the reactions in the Netherlands, not everyone is very keen.